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My name is Peige Zhou. I am a senior in Biomedical Engineering and Music.
I play the violin, and I am from West Des Moines, Iowa.
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I really like Iowa because it feels like a large community.
The University of Iowa is kind of this big umbrella,
and then you have all of these little communities, such as engineering, and all of your student orgs.
You don't feel like you're in this giant campus, even though technically, Iowa is very large.
At school you are meshed into so many small communities that you feel like you know a lot of people.
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I am an Engineering Lead Tutor, which means I am in charge of the engineering tutors at Iowa.
Engineering tutoring is Sunday thru Thursday night, 6 to 9pm,
and we cover the first three semesters of engineering education at Iowa.
What we do is, basically, we're around for homework help, we do concepts, we do lectures, and we do simulated exams.
All of the engineering tutors are upperclassmen students,
so they have taken the classes that incoming freshmen and sophomores have taken.
You kind of get the perspective of what it's like to be a student in that professor's class.
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Biomedical engineering is really the application of engineering principles in science to improve human health.
Students enter the engineering program as first year students,
and they take the traditional engineering classes plus biology, physiology, and cell biology.
Then they use their knowledge of physiology and biology engineering to solve real world problems.
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I'm also in juggling club, which meets every Saturday. We practice on the Pentacrest when it's not cold or raining,
or in the Field House when it is not nice outside.
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I am in the Symphony Orchestra.
It's basically what it sounds like, you have the orchestral members, and then the band members.
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Well this is the Biomedical Senior Design Lab, it's something we just got this year.
The department decided they wanted a space for senoir design students to work in groups
and have access to some of the manufacturing machinery we might need if we weren't outsourcing our prototypes.
Biomedical engineers deal with prosthetics. They are the ones that make heart implants, they make stents,
they make the hip implants, wrist implants, they are the ones that program CT and MRI machines.
As someone who is premedicine and going into that field, I thought that I would probably be working with engineers,
or at least with the things that they have designed.
I kind of wanted to have that background in case I wanted to collaborate in the future with engineers.